Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Writers Do Not Dare To Acknowledge the Blacklist

    The idea that publishers can blacklist, and, turning on a dime, speaking to another audience altogether, about how much we so need the books they publish to save our culture. The word transparency will pop up. Burning our books and blacklisting us is the same exact thing. – Tim Barrus

  2. College by Any Other Name

    Tim Barrus and the New York Times Pam Paul at the New York Times always grabs me because she’s a talented storyteller, and often, her work sheds light for me, the reader, into spaces that are reserved by people who are elsewhere. Ms Paul presents to us a glittering vision

  3. The Great American Novel by Tim Barrus

    Through all the dystopia, it was dawning on them, dystopia or no dystopia, the diaspora would be a tidal wave. There were no roads. – tim barrus

  4. What Is the Punishment 4 Being a Traitor

    Punishment. Rapist. Thief. Impeachment. Deviant. Golden Calves everywhere. Adultery. Tyrant. Maliciousness. Nihilist. Defiant. Butcher. Traitor. Misanthropy. Abhorrent. Pitiless. Ruthless. Psychopath. Misogynist. Cold-blooded. God. Venomous. Demoniacal. Abomination. Treacherous. Caustic. Criminal. Embittered billionaire. Acrimonious. Revengeful. Savage. Intolerant. Pedophile. Aggravated. Breathes revenge. Cheating. Grabbing pussy. Assaultive. And the New York Times with its

  5. a moment of memory

    lost in that place again and it’s sleet bleeding through that window of battering, embrace of the dandelion, snap 2///  

  6. BINOCULARS

    all, all/ my books/// have been burned here and there, ripped to shreds, blacklisted, by people on my front porch armed with forks and spoons/ editors get off on sticking it up my ass, well how am i to keep you down/ play it the way feel it/ i get…

  7. Kross Kreek

    Kross Kreek

  8. Swimming in the Snow

    Swimming in the Snow. – tim barrus

  9. Tim Barrus: Incendiary Comments NYT

    Been there. One drove a cab. One was a maid in a hotel who never went to work because we were more fun to hang out with. The All Too Usual Question is inevitably What If Someone Gets Jealous. Someone will get jealous. I’m thinking the nuances here all have…

  10. Entropy is Cages

    A Cage Does Not Pull Its Weight – tim barrus